On 16/10/09 20:13:45, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:12:59PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 > > Barry Samuels <ba...@beenthere.mail1.co.uk> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem > > > to be missing > > > > > > What would that mean? > > > > Not sure, but in the kernel config, there's something called > > CONFIG_INPUT_DEV (Device Drivers / Input device support / Event > > interface). From its help: > > > > "Say Y here if you want your input device events be accessible > > under char device 13:64+ - /dev/input/eventX in a generic way. > > > > To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the > > module will be called evdev." > > > > Perhaps your kernel doesn't have this enabled?
It is enabled. > from the tone of the prior thread, I assume it's a stock kernel, so, > OP, let us know if it's not. No it's not. I compile my own kernels. > Apropos the xorg log, if the synaptics module can't find the device > then it won't work, I would assume :) Seems fair. > Can you provide the logs of what packages you upgraded that brought > about this failure? I'm thinking maybe this points to a hal problem, > perhaps (but know nothing about hal...). Is there a log for that? The last upgrade was a little overdue and I think about 150 packages were upgraded. The output of lshal -u $(hal-find-by-capability --capability input.touchpad) is: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input' info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.touchpad'} (string list) info.category = 'input' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port' (string) info.product = 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' (string) info.subsystem = 'input' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input' (string) input.device = '/dev/event7' (string) input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port' (string) input.product = 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' (string) input.x11_driver = 'synaptics' (string) input.x11_options.SHMConfig = 'On' (string) linux.device_file = '/dev/event7' (string) linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int) linux.subsystem = 'input' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/input/input7/event7' (string) I hope it means more to you than it does to me. :) -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org